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The gilt-edged invitation came and I said, "What can this mean? 
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To attend the coronation as the first guest of the Queen 
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And sit upon her right hand, where the Prince is normally seen?" 
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The maids of honour stared at me and registered surprise 
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To see a man of such good taste, appear before their eyes 
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Now bring rather humble, I adopted a disguise 
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As the Minister of State for Mass Environment Controls 
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Who condemn the working classes for inhabiting the holes 
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That belong to Queen and Country, but do not permit their souls 
      C         G 
To be free like me 
       C        G 
To be free like me 
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Oh, to be free__ 

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    C                           F 
The Perspex chandelier began to melt and slip away 
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One million candle-powered, it kept the night at bay 
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While the power station workers were busy making hay 
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The workers in the fields were engaged in self-defence 
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Which involved the use of barbed wire as a self-containing fence 
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But as a means of self-protection, it was needlessly immense 
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I stopped to ask them for a light, they pointed at the sun 
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Which raised their hopes of harvesting a better crop than guns 
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Can ever mass produce at the expense of anyone 
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Who is free like me 
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Who is free like me 
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Oh, who is free__ 

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    C                       F 
The solitary peasant in his home above the lake 
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Raised high on wooden stilts, has made the singular mistake 
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Of revolutionary conduct at the celebration wake 
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His urban counterpart engaged in mundane occupation 
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Enjoys the chance of laughing at the Queen's humiliation 
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At the hands of Ministers of State for Rehabilitation 
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Now the power station worker, though his aim is too disjointed 
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Finds himself around the corner, while his gun is never pointed 
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He is ever at the ready, he desires to be anointed 
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And be free like me 
       C         G 
And be free like me 
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And be free__